Astounded Quote by Sylvester Stallone

I first read 'Madame Bovary' in my teens or early twenties.

— Lydia Davis

Some people take 10 years to write a book and some can do one in under a year.

— David Baldacci

“The time to read Madame Bovary is when your romantic hopes and desires have crashed, and you will believe that your future relationships will…

— John Irving

It took seven years from the day I decided I wanted to write fiction to actually getting a book published.

— Cynthia Kadohata

Usually it takes me about nine to 12 months to write a book.

— Jerry Spinelli

It took me 40 years to write my first book.

— Paulo Coelho

I didn't write professionally at first. It took me nine years to get anything published. At the beginning I mostly wrote picture books, which…

— Gail Carson Levine

A lot of first novels are written long before they're actually put down on paper.

— Roger Ebert

Each of my books has taken me a different length of time to write - eight months for 'Seesaw Girl,' eight months for 'Shard,'…

— Linda Sue Park

But you have read Madame Bovary?' (I'd never heard of her books.) 'No.

— David Mitchell

Actually, the 14 novels were written over a period of just over 6 years.

— George Stephen

I wrote Her First American and I always say it took me eighteen years. It took me that long was because after about five…

— Lore Segal